Does anyone know where I can find some info on this cigar? Drew Estate's site doesn't offer any.
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Liga Privada #9
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wish I could help, all I know is that I was gifted one of these beautiful cigars and it tasted wonderful:smokingbo
indyrob
BoM Feb '06 & Sept. '08
Always check Moki's site!
http://www.vitolas.net/displayimage.php?pos=-815
http://www.vitolas.net/displayimage.php?pos=-815
But I guess if Drew Estates doesn't mind supplying him with his own personal line, then who can argue.
From the CW RTDA Highlights page:
"By this time Steve Saka, President of Drew Estates, came rolling up to us, we introduced ourselves and greeted him in the name of ElkTwin (Roger Farnsworth.) He was eager to discuss the Liga Privada #9 as well.
"Tell people not to buy them or even try them. We only have 40,000 of them, and if they like them I won't have any more to sell them and they'll get angry at me, so tell them to just forget they exist. This cigar is my first attempt to make something I'd like to smoke. I don't like infused cigars and then I became the president of a company that makes flavored cigars; I had to find something to smoke. So we took ten different basic blends, or ligas, each with like 4 blends for a total of 40, and we tried them all. It wasn't until we got to the #9 did we find the blend I really liked. I'm not a big believer in limited editions, and these should sell for more to justify the costs. But if I did that they'd be overpriced. It's a blend of seven different tobaccos from all kinds of farms and countries. There's a Matafina from Brazil grown by Jose Fuego (father of Jesus Fuego as discussed in the Defiance report) it's simply too difficult to get all seven tobaccos to make enough cigars to make a real effort. We would need at least 300,000 cigars per year IF the tobacco was available it would be worthwhile to sell. There's no upside to this cigar for anyone, LOL, not enough to sell or to produce enough to meet the demand it would create."
Saka told us, "tell them (your readers) to buy the new Chateau Real instead, we've got millions of those." Chateau Real is Drew Estates' newest release. It's a blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos wrapped in a golden Connecticut Shade wrapper. It's a mild cigar, according to their literature, that's meant to remind older smokers and introduce younger smokers to what the Clear Havanas (cigars made from Cuban tobacco, rolled in the U.S. before the embargo) used to taste like.
Now, before you go thinking this guy's a jerk, he wasn't; he was serious, but joking. The Liga Privada #9 would be simply too difficult to produce annually at a price people would be willing to pay."
"By this time Steve Saka, President of Drew Estates, came rolling up to us, we introduced ourselves and greeted him in the name of ElkTwin (Roger Farnsworth.) He was eager to discuss the Liga Privada #9 as well.
"Tell people not to buy them or even try them. We only have 40,000 of them, and if they like them I won't have any more to sell them and they'll get angry at me, so tell them to just forget they exist. This cigar is my first attempt to make something I'd like to smoke. I don't like infused cigars and then I became the president of a company that makes flavored cigars; I had to find something to smoke. So we took ten different basic blends, or ligas, each with like 4 blends for a total of 40, and we tried them all. It wasn't until we got to the #9 did we find the blend I really liked. I'm not a big believer in limited editions, and these should sell for more to justify the costs. But if I did that they'd be overpriced. It's a blend of seven different tobaccos from all kinds of farms and countries. There's a Matafina from Brazil grown by Jose Fuego (father of Jesus Fuego as discussed in the Defiance report) it's simply too difficult to get all seven tobaccos to make enough cigars to make a real effort. We would need at least 300,000 cigars per year IF the tobacco was available it would be worthwhile to sell. There's no upside to this cigar for anyone, LOL, not enough to sell or to produce enough to meet the demand it would create."
Saka told us, "tell them (your readers) to buy the new Chateau Real instead, we've got millions of those." Chateau Real is Drew Estates' newest release. It's a blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos wrapped in a golden Connecticut Shade wrapper. It's a mild cigar, according to their literature, that's meant to remind older smokers and introduce younger smokers to what the Clear Havanas (cigars made from Cuban tobacco, rolled in the U.S. before the embargo) used to taste like.
Now, before you go thinking this guy's a jerk, he wasn't; he was serious, but joking. The Liga Privada #9 would be simply too difficult to produce annually at a price people would be willing to pay."
